My summer vacation

What I wrote:
17k in my current spec project (nothing you guys have heard of)
Some noodling in a Zane-POV short

What I read:
Re-read Demon Bound – Meljean Brook
Re-read Demon Blood – Meljean Brook
Re-read Demon Forged – Meljean Brook
Re-read When Dreams Begin – Lisa Kleypas
Innocent in the Harem – Michelle Willingham

What I watched:
Haven TV show (not for me)
Lots of House reruns
Pan’s Labyrinth (loved it)
Outpost (Ray Stevenson ftw)
Dead Snow (Norwegian Zombie Movie = awesome)
Triangle (very deja vu but decent)
Daybreakers (too emo and plot sucked)

It was an awesome vacation.

My friend Rae!

So a while back I read this super-awesome-amazing manuscript from a friend that we’ll call Rae Carson. It was about a princess with flaws, who had been entrusted with a Godstone, which meant she was the Chosen One. Except she didn’t want to be the chosen one – she’d rather sit around and be lazy.

I loved this book. So so much. I read an early draft and stayed up all night reading it. I gushed and gushed to Rae about how amazing the book was and how it had stayed with me. And every time I talked to Rae for the next few years, I’d always ask, “Where is the Elisa book? Has it sold yet?”

Today, I am THRILLED to say that Rae Carson’s book (plus two sequels!) sold in a PRE-EMPT to Greenwillow! Here’s what PM says:

Rae Carson’s debut THE PRINCESS AND THE GODSTONE, pitched in the vein of Kristin Cashore and Robin McKinley, in which a princess marked for an act of greatness is married off to a foreign king and swept into a world of courtly politics, dark magic, and war, to Martha Mihalick at Greenwillow, in a three-book deal, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, by Holly Root at Waxman Literary Agency (NA).

Go and congratulate her! She happens to have an amazing agent, too.

(Oh, and I’m also over at Odd Shots talking about sweet, innocent men and Dragon Age: Origins.)